It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.
The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.
You can print a book, unfortunately you can’t print the audience
I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.
Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Consumers online expect dialogue, so pairing your brand with relevant and passion-driven topics is one of the best ways to ensure that you are engaged with key audiences.
There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
